Stainless Steels from the Point of View of the Glass Industry

JSGT 1923 V07 T142-T153

 THE development of stainless steel represents a distinctive new departure in special steels. The presence of a high percentage of chromium, combined with the treatment which the material receives in manufacture, is responsible for producing an alloy which, in a variety of circumstances, remains passive. The result is that, at the ordinary temperature, normal atmospheric corroding influences fail to attack it, but what is more important to the glass manufacturer is that it retains its strength abnormally well at higher temperatures when compared with ordinary steels and, incidentally, does not scale to anything like the extent of the ordinary iron and steels.

By W. H. HATFIELD, D.Met.